president obama, everyone congratulates them -- i understand that probably there was a strong conscience but the potential for conflict, given what had happened in 2003. i think these shows of the enthusiasm was were premature. i myself was writing little blog for my students at johns hopkins, real-time telling them what i saw. and i said yes, july 1, this yielded credibility and legitimacy. three days later i was biting my tongue, big mouth strikes again. i have spoken too soon. because, i think, even the pri now admits, this was not a close collection. evidence of systemic vote buying is out there. it continues to rage in mexico. some things have been uncovered, they come onyx, one of the latest supermarkets. in some states, observers were asked not to go condition themselves with the war on drugs -- they have [inaudible] , [inaudible] there were no observers, we don't know what happened there. he might've been coerced. we don't know. i retracted my great ability on legitimacy. and resorted to what has become the legal elections -- they have become legal because it is impossible to dis